Hat adjusting means



April 1944- I R. LBRILL ETAL 3%,288

HAT ADJUSTING MEANS Filed Oct. 30, 1945 INVENTORS fuav /pra/v BIG/LL JA /e4 L/Pra/v ATTOR N 5Y5 Patented Apr. 11, 1944 HAT ADJUSTING MEAN S R-uby Lipton Brill and Sarah Lipton, New York, N. Y.

Application October 30, 1943, Serial No. 508,310

2 Claims.

This invention relates to hat adjusting or fastening means and comprises an improvement on the constructions shown in our Patent No. 2,325,473. The invention comprises an interlocking or double loop adjusting or hat fastening means having a plurality of anchor pins for securing each end of the fastener to the hat, a pair of said pins being located at spaced points on each of the interlocked loops. The hat fastener or adjuster is applicable for use either as an adjusting device for adjusting the size of the hat to fit the wearers head, as particularly described in our aforesaid patent, or it may be made of sufiicient length to act as a band or strap to fit under the hair of the wearer, so as to secure the hat on the head.

In the accompanying drawing, in which are shown certain preferred embodiments of our invention,

Figure l is a front view of a hat looking into the crown thereof, and showing the hat adjuster at tached to the hatband so as to slightly contract the same in order to make a larger size of hat fit a smaller head.

Figure 2 is an elevation of the adjusting device shown in Fig. 1;

Figure 3 is a similar view of a modified form of adjusting device; and

Figure 4 is a detail partly in elevation and partly in section showing the means of securing the pins to the loo-p in the form of device shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the adjusting device comprises a pair of interlocking loops and I I. These loops may be made of any suitable material, preferably at least one of the loops being made of elastic material. In some instances both of the loops may be made of elastic material, but as a means of conserving rubber, it is desirable to make one of the loops of elastic material and the other of non-elastic material. In such cases the elastic loop gives sufiicient elasticity to the hat adjusting means as a whole.

Each of the loops l0 and l I has a pair of anchor secured thereto. These pins may be of any suitable construction. In th form shown, each of the anchor pins comprises a tubular body 15 having a point 16 at one end thereof, and an extension ii at the other end thereof. An intermediate portion of the loop is folded upon itself, as indicated at 20 (see Fig. 4) and is inserted in the tubular body, which is thereupon clamped on the doubled portion of the loop. The pin is thus firmly fixed to the loop and may be used as an anchor pin by inserting the point through the hatband,

and then tilting the pin so that the point and the end I? anchor behind the hatband in a well understood manner. The loop is completed by bringing the two free ends of the cord together, as shown at 22 in Fig. 4, and clamping them in the second anchor pin, so that the loop is locked into continuous form, and the second anchor pin is by the same operation firmly clamped thereon. A loop is thus formed which is adapted to assume a triangular form when applied to the hat. The base of the triangle is anchored to the hatband by the two spaced anchor pins, while the apex of the triangle interlocks with the apex of the triangle formed by the second loop. A very firm construction is thus produced, and proper spacing of the two pins at the base of the triangle is secured by the short stretch 25 of the loop separating the two pins.

As indicated above the fastening means may be made of such length as to stretch across as a chord between two points on the hatband, or it may be made longer, so as to engage the back of the wearers head below the hair. In either event the double locking of the base of the triangle to the hatband results in the triangular form of the loop, so that the spaced sides thereof firmly engage the hair and head. The loop portions 25 also engage the head and assist in seating the hat firmly on the head.

Figure 3 shows a modified construction in which, instead of forming each loop of one continuous piece with a pin clamped to an intermediate point therein, a separate cord portion 26 forming a spacer is provided between the two pins. The ends of the spacer 26 are clamped in the two pins along with the respective ends of the cord forming the loop. The spacer cord 26 is preferably formed of non-elastic material, although this is not essential. Figure 3 also shows a center attaching member comprising a small loop 2'! which may be made of elastic or inelastic material, and which interlocks through the interlocked ends of the main loops, the ends of the small loop being preferably brought together and clamped in a center anchor pin 28. This small loop and anchor pin is particularly useful where the attaching device is used as a size adjuster for the hatband in which event the center pin 28 is interlocked through the back of the hatband thereby holding the adjuster closer to the hatband.

Whil we have illustrated and described in detail certain preferred forms of our invention, it is to be understood that changes may be made therein and the invention embodied in other structures. We do not, therefore, desir to limit ourselves to the specific construction illustrated, but intend to cover our invention broadly in whatever iorm its principles may be utilized.

We claim:

1. A hat adjusting device of the character described comprising a pair of interlocked closed loops of triangular outline interlocked at the apeces of the triangles and having anchor pins secured at each corner of the base of the triangle.

2. A hat adjusting device of the character described comprising a pair of interlocked loops of triangular outline interlocked at the apeces of the triangles and having anchor pins secured at each corner of the base of the triangle, each of said loops being formed of a single piece of cord, one of said pins being clamped about a doubled fold of the cord, and the second of said pins being clamped about the two free ends of the cord so as to form the cord into a permanent loop.

RUBY LIPTON BRILL.

SARAH LIPTON. 

